| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2011

While the movie is rather predictable and has a few moments that are just too heartwarming, there are scenes that are both moving and humorous.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2009

Amiable but slight.

| Original Score: C | Dec 14, 2008

How About You is based on a Maeve Binchy story about the residents of an Irish retirement home.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2008

I like Dublin in December, how about you?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2008

How four angry, irritated, and frustrated senior citizens in a residential home are introduced to another way of being that proves to be transformative.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2008

Never underestimate the value of slight but charming flicks like Anthony Bryne's How About You.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 14, 2008

Anthony Byrne's lazy drama is insulting to just about everyone, including Maeve Binchy, who wrote the short story on which it was based.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2008

A good scolding and a toke on a joint: that's all it takes to turn the curmudgeonly old folks in How About You into goofy pussycats.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2008

The latest in a long line of films featuring elderly folk as amusingly dotty old broads and bastards.

| Nov 14, 2008

The material is familiar way past the point of cliche, but these folks are thoroughbreds — and they, if not the material, are irresistible.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 14, 2008

Brings together a cast strutting their stuff, not as the dotage of second childhood but in the happiness of being alive at whatever age.

| Nov 13, 2008

Nothing in How About You is the least bit surprising; the film hits its marks with dreary precision.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Nov 13, 2008

Redgrave, O'Hara, Ackland, Fricker, and Staunton tear into their parts as though the Academy is still dispensing awards like a gumball machine to any actor who admits that old people can be bastards.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2008

Though the film misses its chance to make a real commentary on our society's treatment of the elderly, as far as Christmas films go, you could do much worse.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 13, 2008

Not even Vanessa Redgrave and Imelda Staunton can elicit a gasp out of the wheezing script.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 12, 2008

As the reigning inhabitant, Redgrave adopts the swanning gestures of Maggie Smith in this mild adaptation of a Maeve Binchy story. Other drama queens enjoying the opportunity to screech include Imelda Staunton, Brenda Fricker, and Joss Ackland.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 12, 2008

Based on a short story by the great Irish writer Maeve Binchy, the film has structure, resonance and a welcome respect for well-delineated characters, beautifully observed by a distinguished cast.

| Nov 12, 2008

Tackling the edgy topic of old age with extraordinary empathy and a veteran cast, it's an irreverent, sweetly exuberant exploration of loss - in all of its ramifications.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 10, 2008

There is room for a simple, feel-good story in the holiday season and HOW ABOUT YOU fills the bill nicely. A good ensemble cast brings this adaptation of a Maeve Binchy short story to its amiable if predictable end.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2008